okay well what's happening in New York well that's what we're doing too on our our current events and it's all over the
oh what's happening in New York we're all reading about Los Angeles i think
of course the TV and we're having a little bit of uh uh you know demonstrations here in Dallas but not anything like they're having in LA
i should hope not
really
i i i was just reading this morning in the paper that it's also spreading to San Francisco as well
oh is that right well it
the rioting and all that kind of thing
uh-huh and last night it was going into some of the nicer areas too you know uh rather than just staying in the
in the uh in the sections that it started in
hm
but uh i get my current events um all three ways you know talking to people uh some TV although not much TV and uh reading the paper
do you get
and
uh i'm big on the morning radio i guess i woken get woken up by the alarm and catch the day's news real quickly
well that's something i used to do when i had a long drive to work or a or a maybe a thirty or forty minute drive to work i would turn the the news on and listen to that all the way
uh-huh
but i don't do that anymore it's just that i guess a habit i've gotten out out of and that's uh that's a real good way to get everything recapped
you know i was just doing some thinking recently on we only hear
we hear the news in a slanted fashion by how it's reported to us
uh-huh
i was looking at this morning's paper and you see uh you know the cover photo is
a truck and and in the background everything's in flames
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and i think they kind of uh set you up in a way
well i know they do
i was uh i worked in public relations for um a a Safeway Stores which was a is a big grocery chain in used to be in this area it's not here any longer and it used to be in New York i don't know there
yeah i've heard of it
and uh i was their uh press person uh public relations person for about five years and handled all of the press
and i would tell them one thing on the phone very carefully
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uh and they would report it
not so carefully and in different context you had to be so careful uh whenever there was an interview on television uh they would tape a interview ask you lots of questions and then they would just take excerpts out that
uh you know standing alone would didn't mean the same thing
and so but we just really you really had a we had a tough time uh
relating to what you actually what was actually going on as to what was being reported
um i i think uh the news is starting to think of itself as theater
well i think you're you may be right there too uh and i can see where
did you happen to hear the uh interview of the uh juror
no no no
uh last night on TV
she said that the public saw only a small portion of that tape
now i you know on this Rodney King
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now i can't side with her
you know
because they they you know you can see see what was happening and that's totally wrong
but you know we were shown just a portion of something we weren't shown a whole picture
well well something i read in the paper was you know if you just hear the headlines you don't know that there were three other people in the car that was stopped who got out put their hands up and said okay we give up
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that's exactly right
you know and they don't tell you that that makes you so angry to think that oh they beat on this poor man
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this one person
but he he had a choice to you know this all could have been you know avoided if he had behaved himself i i i believe they overreacted horribly
exactly
right
but you know if you think of the cop's point of view he has a wife and two kids and he wants to get home tonight and he doesn't know how crazy this guy is
exactly and he's resisting
so everybody's fighting for their life and you can see how this can get out of hand
um-hum exactly
but
but like you said we were not shown that we were not uh unless we you know read in-depth you you get that you don't get that impression and so that makes everybody up in arms
i've been very annoyed lately by the sensationalism that's going on
i was uh visiting some friends over the Easter vacation in California in uh California near San Francisco
and the big thing out there was they were finally after twenty five years going to execute someone
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uh whereas they've always had a death pentalty penalty they always put it off
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and she had the TV on and they go to say they go on to say well the cyanide came into the room and after about a minute his head slumped and they went into gross gross detail
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i mean why is this on TV is this news do we want to know it
right
it was disgusting and this whole thing with Willie Kennedy Smith you know did he rape this girl did he not why is that headline news
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well it wouldn't be if it was anyone else
yeah but i mean i think the newspapers are irresponsible
it wouldn't have been if it
